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Thomas H Jones II
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  • Penn State University's Center for Academic Computing IBM mainframe (at the time, a brand, spanking new ES/9000-600 — this was 1988)
  • THJ100@PSUVM.PSU.EDU (still some USENET posts to be found under that one)
  • School-issued
  • It used to be super easy to spoof email address origins: email systems prior to at least 1997 didn't really have meaningful security to try to ensure senders were authenticated or verifiable.